WILL GOD FORGIVE ME? PART 1
Sakkie Parsons
The writing about what I am about to share with you ended up being a bit long, and I thought it best to split it into two parts.
Here follows part one.
Someone contacted me and asked if I could write something about our Lord’s forgiveness. Her sister’s son refuses to go to church because he says that for what he did to his mother, our Lord will never forgive him.
Shortly after this was communicated to me, as our Lord always works with me in His great love, I read a passage in the Word, and our Lord showed me what I now want to share with you.
Before I share what our Lord has shown me, here are a few wonderful truths from the Word about how our loving Lord sees us when we sincerely confess our sins.
1 John 1:9 (AMP) – “If we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with His will and purpose].”
What does our Lord mean, or what does it all entail, when He says that He will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all the wrong things we have done, if we, as I understand it, confess our sins with true and sincere repentance?
How wonderful! Just read here:
Isaiah 1:18 (AMP) – “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.”
There is a saying: “He is as good as his word.”
Well, I want to testify the following about our Lord:
Our Lord’s Word is as good, true, steadfast, and eternal as He is Himself, and now I come to what our Lord showed me shortly after my conversation with the lady I mentioned earlier.
Because I want you to have it in black and white before you, and because there will be people who have somewhat forgotten the history, I will include quite a few passages from the Word, and that is why this writing is divided into two parts.
This is what I want to share with you:
2 Samuel 11:2-4 (AMP) – “One evening David got up from his couch and was walking on the flat roof of the king’s palace, and from there he saw a woman bathing; and she was very beautiful in appearance. David sent and inquired about the woman. Someone said, ‘Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?’ David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he lay with her. And when she was purified from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.”
This was, of course, a terrible sin that David committed.
He had a married woman brought to him while her husband was fighting in the war for him. Then he committed adultery with her—a sin so serious in our Lord’s eyes that according to the law of Moses, it was punishable by death.
Leviticus 20:10 (AMP) – “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who is the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death.”
David, however, was the king, and back then, just as today, kings or leaders of nations could seemingly get away with anything.
In David’s case, a huge problem arose.
2 Samuel 11:5 (AMP) – “The woman conceived; and she sent word and told David, ‘I am pregnant.'”
Now David was faced with a terrible problem.
The woman was pregnant. Her husband was on the battlefield.
So, if her husband stayed at war, he would eventually know that the child was not his.
What now?
Now he planned even more sin. He wanted to deceive his loyal soldier into thinking the child was his by sending him home to his wife so that he would sleep with her. Then David would also be rid of the responsibility for his child.
Joab, whom you will read about next, was the commander of David’s army.
2 Samuel 11:6-13 (AMP) – “Then David sent word to Joab, saying, ‘Send me Uriah the Hittite.’ So Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was, how the people were doing, and how the war was progressing. Then David said to Uriah, ‘Go down to your house and wash your feet [spend time at home].’ So Uriah left the king’s palace, and a gift from the king was sent out after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s palace with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house. When they told David, ‘Uriah did not go down to his house,’ David said to Uriah, ‘Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?’ Uriah said to David, ‘The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.’ Then David said to Uriah, ‘Stay here today as well, and tomorrow I will let you go back.’ So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. Now David invited him, and he ate and drank with him, so that he became drunk; but in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, and still did not go down to his house.”
When David’s deceitful trick did not work, as it often happens with sin, the sin meant to cover the first sin just became an even greater sin.
As they say in English:
“It went from bad to worse.”
Because then David planned murder.
In the next writing on this matter, which you will receive in a day or two, I will share with you what our Lord has shown me about how complete His forgiveness is when someone has genuine and sincere repentance.
For now, I conclude with one of my favorite verses from the Word when I think of our Lord’s forgiveness of my sins:
Isaiah 1:18 (AMP) – “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Blessings,
Sakkie Parsons